NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD FireStream 9270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270 +212%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV770

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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